The High Court acquitted six Britons residing in the South Island of the alleged crimes of drug trafficking, money laundering and forgery. The prosecution asked for them twelve years in prison and fines totaling EUR 63,948,712.14. The facts date back to October 23, 2008 when Stephen Dennis Brown, British resident in Portugal, only convicted of a crime against public health, engaging in frequent trips to Spain, Tenerife and Marbella in particular was under Gerard Mooney driving a truck with a load of cleaning cow udders and camouflaged within 46, 801 kilos of amphetamines and two kilos of hashish. The vehicle was intercepted by British police on the highway A-40 in Oxfordshire. The drug had reached a market value of 806,662.04 euros wholesale. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), British agency responsible for investigations into major criminal organizations alerted the National Police UDYCO that British subjects are used to transport cocaine were located in southern Spain and Canary Islands. Within this operation was mentioned about the shipment of vehicles from the Canary Islands in a ferry to Cadiz, which ultimately was never produced. Heritage investigations have uncovered that James Mac Donald, alias Jim and his wife appeared as owners of a bungalow located in Las Mimosas in Adeje, with two parking spaces. According to the police was in charge of transport and logistics. Another defendant Robert Ian Donaldson, aka Ian Small or owned nine homes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas and Santiago del Teide, with a value of 1,974,000 euros. In addition, your company Ians Sports Cars also appeared as owner of two houses in San Miguel de Abona and three rustic farm in Granadilla de Abona, as well as two Ferraris, a Porsche Cayenne, a Mitsubishi L200, a Hummer, Audi Q7, two motorcycles water and a speedboat valued at 3,300,000 euros. This according to the researchers dealt with the accounting and organizational management. The National Police discovered that several of the defendants also maintained in Gran Canaria societies through a company Scruffy Murphy and the club Fibber Magee and Scroti. The National Court ruled that you could only convict Stephan D. Brown, for an offense against public health, and sentenced to 6 years and 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 808,253 euros. While James Mac Donald, Ian Donaldson Robert, Ronald and Deborah O'Dea Tamara Learmouth, aka Debbie, who took advantage of his job at a travel agency to provide the tickets, were acquitted of the crimes of drug trafficking and money laundering. In addition, acquitted of the same offense to Mary Durkin and Stephen Hendry D. Brown.
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